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Hogmanays

Hogmanays is the plural of Hogmanay.

Meaning of Hogmanay

Noun

Hogmanay (countable and uncountable, plural Hogmanays)

  1. (Scotland) New Year's Eve.
    • Each year the Hogmanay celebration and the Christmas market on Princes Street Gardens that accompanies it, together with the ever-growing international festival and fringe, eats up more and more of our public spaces.2020 January 5, Kevin McKenna, “Rebel alliance ready to put a halt to the ‘disneyfication’ of Edinburgh”, in The Observer, →ISSN
  2. (Scotland) A celebration or gift for New Year's Eve.

Questions about Hogmanays

What is Hogmanays the plural of?
Hogmanays is the plural of Hogmanay.

Words near Hogmanays in the dictionary

  1. Hoglund
  2. Hoglunds
  3. hogmace
  4. hogman
  5. Hogmanay
  6. Hogmanays
  7. hogmane
  8. hogmanes
  9. Hogmany
  10. hogmen
  11. Hogmenay

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